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Comment Re:Counterpoint explanation (Score 1) 124

As far as I can tell, statistics doesn't apply to these rare deaths because there are so few of them, so since the sample size is small, we could say any rule applies. I think we should stick with the "it's just coincidences" explanation which also seems to be the officially sanctioned explanation, and I'd hate to differ.

Comment Re:Argument is the same as Drexler's Nanotech (Score 1) 60

Someone understands the situation. Yes, it's a typical silicon valley tech scare thing. People profit off these tech scare schemes. Sometimes a bit worry is good, as they say, but in this case, it looks like it is way overblown, as was the case with nanotech with one difference, AI is becoming immensely successful, and pervasive, but it doesn't seem to be as harmful as scaremongers claim it is.

As an AI researcher, I'll say we should research safety aspects, but this borders on paranoia now.

Comment Re:Debian + Xfce (Score 2) 76

Microsoft already responded to it. They had the original Pardus project shelved because it was too dangerous by making a deal with the government to give them free windows+offices licenses and suspend this project somehow. I calculated our project cost like dozens of millions of dollars to Microsoft. They were terrified!

The project originally was based on native system tools and not debian. The switch to debian is a poor decision, they didn't have competent staff so they decided to do it on the cheap it seems and scraped a distro that is in fact superior to debian. So pardus already was killed by Microsoft once.

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